Author: Edward ChappellPublisher:
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Category : Cree Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay
Author: Edward ChappellPublisher:
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Category : Cree Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Narrative of a voyage to Hudson's bay in his majesty's ship Rosamond
Author: Edward ChappellNarrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22
Author: John FranklinPublisher:
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772
Author: Samuel HearnePublisher:
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Category : Hudson Bay
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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A Journey from Prince of Wale's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean
Author: Samuel HearnePublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Fatal Journey
Author: Peter C. MancallPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786747870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hudson River in the process. In Fatal Journey, acclaimed historian and biographer Peter C. Mancall narrates Hudson's final expedition. In the winter of 1610, after navigating dangerous fields of icebergs near the northern tip of Labrador, Hudson's small ship became trapped in winter ice. Provisions grew scarce and tensions mounted amongst the crew. Within months, the men mutinied, forcing Hudson, his teenage son, and seven other men into a skiff, which they left floating in the Hudson Bay. A story of exploration, desperation, and icebound tragedy, Fatal Journey vividly chronicles the undoing of the great explorer, not by an angry ocean, but at the hands of his own men.
The Company
Author: Stephen BownPublisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385694091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America. When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.
Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond
Author: Edward ChappellPublisher:
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Category : Cree language
Languages : en
Pages :
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In Order to Live Untroubled
Author: Renee FossettPublisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887553281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ancient and contemporary Inuit societies, the Inuit world in the crucial period from the 16th to the 20th centuries remains largely undescribed and unexplained. In Order to Live Untroubled helps fill this 400-year gap by providing the first, broad, historical survey of the Inuit peoples of the central arctic.Drawing on a wide array of eyewitness accounts, journals, oral sources, and findings from material culture and other disciplines, historian Renee Fossett explains how different Inuit societies developed strategies and adaptations for survival to deal with the challenges of their physical and social environments over the centuries. In Order to Live Untroubled examines how and why Inuit created their cultural institutions before they came under the pervasive influence of Euro-Canadian society. This fascinating account of Inuit encounters with explorers, fur traders, and other Aboriginal peoples is a rich and detailed glimpse into a long-hidden historical world.
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